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Lead Principal, ISO/SOC2 Technical Risk and Controls Advisory
CoalfireUnited States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Jun 2025
About the role
About Coalfire
Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.
But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do. We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.
Position Summary
The Lead Principal manages a team of principals, leads the GRC Advisory Change Advisory Board (CAB), and ensures compliance with framework requirements. They manage advisory consulting engagements, review client deliverables, and collaborate with practice leadership to set internal directions and strategic plans. They work with project managers and other team members to manage project timelines and deliverables. As GRC Advisory subject matter expert (SME), they have expertise in evaluating the security and compliance of client services against regulatory and industry standards, with knowledge in related areas. The core standards to GRC Advisory practice and therefore the Lead Principal include a suite of ISO standards (27001, 27701, 42001, 27017, 27018), SOC1, SOC2, HITRUST, and HIPAA. The Lead Principal is familiar with adjacent frameworks impacting GRC Advisory clients and may be involved in developing methodologies to enhance the service line capabilities in line with new and emerging frameworks. The Lead Principal is expected to leverage their technical and business experience across four (4) domains, including: 1. Prioritize and perform research on topics and/or areas affecting client engagements or regulatory requirements to bring clarity to that area which may involve engaging the regulatory bodies to get the clarification. Communicate the information gathered to the entire practice through various mediums such as information repositories, meetings, trainings, etc. Update repositories that have outdated information with updated information. 2. Evaluate and enhance the security of complex systems that may impact both risk and compliance for organizations, large and small. 3. Mentor and develop team members to help grow the team and its capabilities.4. Engage outwardly into the community through blog posts, technical white papers, forum participation and conference speaking engagements. Engage inwardly to support business and practice growth by developing Sales/Marketing collateral, delivery methodologies and SOPs, train/mentor colleagues as necessary and serve as the SME for all topics related to your technical or compliance area of expertise.
Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.
But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do. We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.
Position Summary
The Lead Principal manages a team of principals, leads the GRC Advisory Change Advisory Board (CAB), and ensures compliance with framework requirements. They manage advisory consulting engagements, review client deliverables, and collaborate with practice leadership to set internal directions and strategic plans. They work with project managers and other team members to manage project timelines and deliverables. As GRC Advisory subject matter expert (SME), they have expertise in evaluating the security and compliance of client services against regulatory and industry standards, with knowledge in related areas. The core standards to GRC Advisory practice and therefore the Lead Principal include a suite of ISO standards (27001, 27701, 42001, 27017, 27018), SOC1, SOC2, HITRUST, and HIPAA. The Lead Principal is familiar with adjacent frameworks impacting GRC Advisory clients and may be involved in developing methodologies to enhance the service line capabilities in line with new and emerging frameworks. The Lead Principal is expected to leverage their technical and business experience across four (4) domains, including: 1. Prioritize and perform research on topics and/or areas affecting client engagements or regulatory requirements to bring clarity to that area which may involve engaging the regulatory bodies to get the clarification. Communicate the information gathered to the entire practice through various mediums such as information repositories, meetings, trainings, etc. Update repositories that have outdated information with updated information. 2. Evaluate and enhance the security of complex systems that may impact both risk and compliance for organizations, large and small. 3. Mentor and develop team members to help grow the team and its capabilities.4. Engage outwardly into the community through blog posts, technical white papers, forum participation and conference speaking engagements. Engage inwardly to support business and practice growth by developing Sales/Marketing collateral, delivery methodologies and SOPs, train/mentor colleagues as necessary and serve as the SME for all topics related to your technical or compliance area of expertise.
What You'll Do
- Manage a team of 5-9 senior team members or “principals”.
- Work with industry and regulatory bodies to share information security technical and non-technical expertise.
- Lead the GRC Advisory Change Advisory Board (CAB) and own the prioritization and tracking of stated action items.
- Own and maintain the technical quality assurance (QA) processes for the GRC Advisory practice.
- Lead scoping workshops within complex clients engagements. This includes leading pre-sales calls, onsite visits, understanding customer security and compliance requirements and environments, and proposing and delivering packaged offerings or custom solution engagements.
- Develop technical content, such as security plans, procedures, policies, and white papers that can be used by our clients to assist them in elevating/building out their security and compliance programs.
- Lead delivery engagements including on-site projects working with clients to build out compliance roadmaps, architecture guidance, gap assessments, internal audits, risk assessments, etc.
- Manage complex delivery engagements by providing project status updates to applicable stakeholders, delegating tasks to team members and ensuring completion, identifying showstoppers and roadblocks to project success, etc.
- Collaborate with Coalfire engineering, support, and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback.
- Serve as the practice subject matter expert (SME) for escalations, sales/marketing support, driving practice profitability and revenue.
- Provide Delivery Team Support, including identifying process improvements, training delivery personnel on methodologies/tools and quality topics, and mentoring delivery personnel.
- Development of industry-wide service line thought leadership through: Authori
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